Category: Ancestry

We got a great response from our Google Hangout earlier this month, which focused on some of 23andMe’s basic ancestry tools.
During the presentation CeCe Moore, a genetic genealogist and 23andMe Ancestry Ambassador, started with a quick overview of the science behind using DNA for ancestry before diving ...

Although his family had always told him they were of Mexican and Puerto Rican ancestry, David Aguilar never thought that truly captured who he was.
“I always felt that I didn’t really fit into that particular category,” said David, a former ballet dancer who now works as an acrobat.
As a 7 year-old ...

Kathy Fisher’s life journey has taken her far from home, but she’s never been far from family, even if she didn’t know it.
In an uncanny coincidence, 23andMe connected Kathy with an unknown cousin whose path had crossed hers multiple times in her life – from South Africa, to Botswana, to ...

Alice found her biological mom after decades of searching, so did Cody and PJ.
We’ve heard from many customers about how 23andMe helped them find their mothers, learn more about the mothers they never knew or simply see in their own DNA some of the things their mother passed on to them.
Here are a few ...

In her 30 years of searching Perline Porter had to chase down rumors, uncover lies and overcome false assumptions, but in the end she discovered the truth.
“I finally know where I came from,” said Perline, a 58 year-old retired computer tech. “I found my biological father and family.”
The searching — ...

In honor of both Easter and Passover, we want to share Debra's 23andMe story.
A Christian, Debra didn’t just read the Bible, she began to immerse herself in the Torah, the first five books of Hebrew Scriptures that are also part of the Old Testament. In looking into her own family history she didn’t have ...

Anyone with a brother or sister doesn’t need a national holiday to remind them how special bonds between siblings can be, but in recognition of National Sibling Day we bring you another in a long list of stories of siblings who found each other through 23andMe.
Tricia had a few details, but never enough to ...

Leslie grew up with a family secret — somewhere out there she had a big brother named Michael, her father’s illegitimate son from before he married her mother.
As a child, Leslie made this mysterious brother her imaginary friend. And as she grew older, she became determined that one day, she would find ...

In the best children’s stories the parents are done away with early on. Mom or dad — sometimes both of them — are dead and gone even before the opening “once upon a time.”
It’s a plot device that helps the reader make an emotional connection with the characters. It also starts the arch of the ...

Thank your lucky clovers because almost everyone in the 23andMe database is connected to someone who is Irish, and plenty of others have at least a wee bit of Irish ancestry.
In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, 23andMe researchers looked at the aggregated and anonymous data of our customers to determine just ...

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